Agree with others that this game is unfinished - it lacks polish and progression is definitely broken. That said I've spent 54 hours getting to mid-game and gamplay is fun if frustrating at times. I easily see myself spending another 50 hours beating the game. Broken - it's much easier to create tier II items before you can gather what you need for tier I items in some trees. In order to progress the story to get the reipies for an item, you first have to provide that item to another character. And while you can buy the item - in games like this typically crafting the item is the norm and it sets the bounds of your progress. Unpolished - there are no recipie or blueprint books and they are sorely needed. It's fine to have a book with ? if you have yet to unlock it but having no way to check what you need for building or even where you need to go to build it is beyond frustrating and easily avoided. I spent many hours going to every known workstation looking for a tech I just unlocked. Recipies are even worse. It's frustrating having to go to the oven to check what ingredients you need while you are out foraging or fishing. Finally one crafting tier is a completely unfinished mess. It would help a lot if, after investing time and resources to study an item, you could check somewhere what you discovered about it. For a fictional example - let's say you study a saw and determine you can break it down into a dust. You then go to a station to break it down and determine it's iron dust. Well hours later when you need more iron dust - can you quickly check what items you've discovered breakdown into this? No. Can you go to the breakdown machine and check items in your inventory before committing them so see what you have already discovered they breakdown into? No. Hugely frustrating. Last but not least - there is a ton of grinding in this game. Some merchants are flat broken and I'm not going to bother baking 1,000 loaves of bread to level them up.
